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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
That's not how it went down at all. I have the real footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDyNJjABdP4
That was a pretty cool appearance.
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And then be all "Hehe, cool."
Also, the "come backkkk..."
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Hahaha
that was the best
Obama's HEY was great though. The look on the press' faces was like WHAT THE?
Edit - Gibbs did a nice job when getting back to the podium too with his "I have this from the highest levels of government" joke.
What was the joke one of the press made right before that? I can't quite catch it, but it had the whole room cracking up.
Also, cue right wing "THE PRESIDENT IS TOO UNOFFICIAL" bitching. :P
This is the greatest post you have ever made. If it could be heard through the Internet, I would applaud you.
Particularly considering that they just had a press conference 2 days ago. I mean, I get it. He's sort of a big deal what with his rooms full of leather bound books and an office which smells of rich mahogany. Still, he's the fucking President. Dude has shit to do. What did you expect would happen after he read his deal? Even ignoring the fact that you didn't expect that in the first place.
No, the bitching is gonna be about him having a laugh while we're ZOMG IN A WAR AND ECONOMIC CRISES. I'm fucking waiting for it. That dipshit Hannity is gonna lead the charge. Watch.
Well thank you...I think. I aim to entertain.
Sort of off topic and I mentioned it in [chat] but I can make a case that it relates to this: I met Bill Clinton today. I was kinda just expecting to maybe get a camera phone picture but he actually stopped and shook my hand. It was really weird. Like out of place weird and I don't really have a distinct memory of it happening other than it happened
I was showing the photos to a co-worker and he commented that I was actually physically shaking.
I've never met a president before let alone shaken their hand. It was kinda cool.
I've still got that foot.
I shook W's hand at the White House. Not gonna lie, I was grinning like a dumbass. I joked that we need to hold back my friend (who is SUPER liberal) when we met the Prez. Ironically enough, he put his arm around HER of all people before the photo.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I was about 20 feet away from him when he was doing a campaign rally here in South Florida.
Clear shot from below the press riser and about 7 deep away from getting a handshake in Springfield when he announced Biden for Veep, and about 4 deep from the jersey barrier separating the cheap seats from the VIP's at Grant Park.
At this point Bush was planning his first of many, many vacations. He took a month-long one shortly before 9/11.
I say that because I live in a different Springfield and also saw Obama. It was just a rally but still, I was very close and got some decent pictures.
Also a video of him making a joke about Wild Bill Hickock.
If I recall correctly he implied he was going to duel McCain on the issue of taxes. This is awesome because Bill Hickock shot and killed a guy in a duel in my city's town square.
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I think we've all agreed it went like this:
Obama offers to discuss matters of pertinence with republicans, and wants to reach a compromise that will make both sides somewhat happy. Republicans sniff his hand, growl menacingly, piss on his hand, bite it, then fart in his face.
Then people say he's not bipartisan, because he didn't try hard enough to make the republicans agree with his points of view. Like try with mass mind control.
Not to be flippant, but that's basically what the Dems did under Bush with the GOP majority.
However, not that that's a sound reason to be dickish. I might put it to Obama to suggest more line-item legislature to meet the GOP halfway on some things, but I still don't think they'd go for it. These days (and really, for as long as I can honestly remember), it seems more and more that the purpose of Congress is to back your party and keep your job above all other things, as the logic goes:
"Congressman A elected to Party X's seat" + "Bill proposed by completely unrelated Congressman B supporting platform issue for Party X" = "Vote for bill by Congressman A."
Which is honestly a bit of math I'm afraid might derail Obama. I've long thought that he was too moderate for Capital Hill, and wouldn't put it past his own party to fuck him over in the name of brand loyalty should he look to be making a percievedly unpopular hypothetical compromise with the GOP. Same thing happened to Bush and McCain over their softer stances on immigration.
But right now, I'm currently ashamed I ever identified with the GOP. Not that it was ever all this bad, but these days? I hardly recognize them as the party of Lincoln. Hell, I hardly recognize them as the party of Nixon.
Hear me? Fucking NIXON.
I am so tempted to put this, out of context, in my sig. You Nixon lover, you.
Really? You don't think its accurate to link them to the President who (at least up to FDR) centralized governmental power most in the federal government, created the IRS, was the most socially liberal up to that time (effectively, maybe JQA was moreso), opposed foreign interventionism, was conciliatory towards even actual traitors after the war, and embraced the Living Document school of Constitutional analysis?
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A President should be bipartisan whenever possible. And it's always possible. He is the voice of the people who voted for him and those who did not.
Specter was Obama's 100 day gift, whom will now grant the Dems a filibuster proof majority in Congress allowing them to bulldoze and steamroll through god knows what kind of fuck bills. Specter now makes Obama more powerful than you could ever imagine, assuming he lays down like a dog and votes Left more often than he votes Right.
Work.
They're pissed off, probably because Obama has effectively soothed them. You don't think that if the Republicans had a majority right now with a Republican President in power the Democrats would not be doing the exact same shit? They'd be doing it even worse.
When you are a leader, you take responsibility when things go well, but you also take responsibility when things fucked, whether you did anything or not.
Because this isn't the kind of Change we believed in. We really thought Washington was going to be a different more bipartisan place with Obama. It is not.
Bush Tax cuts for example. Lots of Democrats voted in favor, as opposed to...
...the stimulus package.
No further questions.
Hoover and FDR.
You try to come across as a sensible, logical man, but it really isn't working when you (half-assedly) answer half the questions, and ignore the rest completely.
Since you apparently have an answer for everything, how about answering how you would do the stimulus package better than he did, considering.. well a.) you started the thread and b.) you were asked that question, by at least three people. If you don't even have the balls to answer a question on the internet, I feel really bad for ya.
Someone here said it. There are two kinds of responsible. A captain responcible for whatever happens on his ship, and then there's actually being in control of a situation.